Teatro romano de Zaragoza | |
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&sq=&lang=&file=File:Spain_location_map_with_provinces.svg)  Location in Spain | |
| Location | Zaragoza, Spain |
|---|---|
| Type | Roman theatre |
| Official name | Teatro romano |
| Type | Non-movable |
| Criteria | Monument |
| Reference no. | RI-51-0010689 |
The Roman Theater of Zaragoza is a Roman theatre in the Roman colonia of Caesaraugusta –present-day Zaragoza, Spain–, in the Roman province of Hispania Tarraconensis. It was built in the first half of the 1st century AD, in the Age of Tiberius and Claudius, following the model of the Theatre of Marcellus in Rome. It was used for Roman theatrical performances and had a capacity of 6,000 spectators in a city where only lived 18.000 people.[1] Currently in ruins, it was active until the third century.
Its materials were used to build walls and other buildings. In 1973, archeological excavations uncovered it. It can currently be visited within the framework of the Cesaraugusta Theater Museum. It was declared Bien de Interés Cultural in 2001.[2]
- ^ "Teatro Romano de Zaragoza". Gobierno de Aragón (in Spanish). Retrieved November 3, 2017.
- ^ VV. AA., Renovación del Plan Integral del Casco Histórico de Zaragoza 2005-2012, Zaragoza, Gerencia Municipal de Urbanismo del Ayuntamiento de Zaragoza, page 65.